Re: JFS or XFS for GNU/Linux production Server?

[Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, here is a review of all the journaling filesystems I did a while ago.

http://209.81.41.149/~jpiszcz/

I believe XFS is more mature than JFS in Linux.  This is just my opinion 
however and from reading LKML and other related mailing lists.

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 matthias.hofer@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm working in a quite large computing center as Systems Designer for UNIX
> and UNIX-like Systems. We largely use IBMs AIX and a bit of Sun's Solaris.
>
> Now we want to bring GNU/Linux broadly to our datacenter and application
> servers. We chose "SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8" for including IBM JFS
> and SGI XFS support.
> On AIX, LVM is everywhere and the Filesystems can be increased (and now
> shrinked) in size when mounted. The Filesystem Increasement therefore is
> an important feature for us on Linux.
>
> But we don't know which one of XFS and JFS to take. Does one of them have
> advantages that makes it better for servers?
> I mean, I know that JFS for Linux was the base for JFS2 for AIX, but as I
> read the JFS for Linux mailinglist I don't think, this is a feature that
> could help us.
>
> Anyway, thank you very much for help in advance
>
> Matthias Hofer
> Allgemeines Rechenzentrum/System UNIX
> http://www.arz.co.at/